OWC Terms, Conditions and Policies

OWC reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. It is your responsibility to check the Terms periodically for changes. Continued use of the Site following posting of changes means you agree to the changes. OWC may make changes to any products or services offered, or to the applicable prices for any such products or services, at any time, with or without notice.

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All text, graphics, interfaces, pictures, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, art, Videos, and code ("Content"), including but not limited to the design, selection, "look and feel", compilation, and arrangement of such Content, is protected by copyright, trademark, and various other intellectual property laws. VOYAGER trademark used under a license from the owner of U.S. Registration No. 3,089,301. All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided in the Terms, no part of the Site or Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way to any other computer, server, web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial purpose, without OWC 's prior written consent.

All Site Instructional Videos ("Videos"), are owned or licensed by or to OWC, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and various other intellectual property laws. Except as expressly provided below, no part of the Videos may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way to any other computer, server, web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial purpose, without OWC 's prior written consent.

OWC permits the downloading and distribution of its Videos, provided that you agree to comply with the following conditions in addition to the Terms:

1. Videos may only be used in their complete, unmodified format. No clipping, altering, or creating derivative works of Videos in any manner is allowed;
2. Videos may not be used for any commercial use, including but not limited to, selling Videos, incorporating Videos into other products intended for resale (for-profit); and using the Videos to directly or indirectly sell, market, or advertise your (or any other third party's) products or services;
3. Videos may not be used in any manner that would, in the sole discretion of OWC, harm the reputation of OWC, or in a manner that is inappropriate in light of community decency standards;
4. OWC requests for consideration of Video use a prominent link back to www.OWC.com and, where applicable, any referenced OWC product links shall be directed to the appropriate www.OWC.com product description page;
5. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless OWC, and its owners, affiliates, agents, and employees, from and against any claims, costs, or damages (including attorney's fees) arising from your use and/or distribution of the Videos. Although every effort is made to provide the most accurate and useful information in Videos, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding accuracy, completeness, reliability, or usefulness of any information. Models used for demonstration on Videos may vary from that used by you. You use the Videos at your own risk, and you agree OWC shall not be held liable for any use of the information contained in Videos;
6. Your use of Videos is expressly subject to the complete Site Terms and Conditions available at: Site Terms. In no event shall OWC be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages howsoever caused and under any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of the Videos, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury, including but not limited to those caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion of data, defect, delay, computer virus, destruction, or negligence;
7. You agree to immediately cease using Videos upon receipt of notice from OWC that you are in violation of its conditions of Video use.

All other rights reserved. Full HD versions of most videos are available. Please contact media@owc.com for more information or guidance in using OWC Videos on your site.

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The following is a non-exhaustive list of OWC's trademarks and registered trademarks.

When using these marks in publications that will be distributed only in the USA:

The following symbols: ™, ℠, or ® should be used upon first usage of the protected name.

For publications that will be distributed outside the United States:

Do not include trademark symbols. Instead use the appropriate trademark attribution notice, for example:

Data Doubler is a trademark of New Concepts Development Corporation, registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Note: Trademarks are adjectives, and cannot be made plural or possessive.

The absence of a logo, product name, or service name, from the list below does not constitute a waiver of OWC's intellectual property rights, trademark rights, or other rights of that product, service name, or logo.

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Certain services offered on or through the Site may require you to open an account (including setting up a MacSales.com username and password). You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information, including your password, and for any activity that occurs under your account. You may not use anyone else's MacSales.com username, password, or account at any time without express consent. OWC is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these obligations.

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Additional terms and conditions apply to purchases of goods or services at the Site. Terms of Sale are located at: Site Terms . Such terms are made a part of these Terms by this reference. You agree to abide by such other terms and conditions as applicable. If there is a conflict between these Terms and the terms of sale for any goods or services offered through the Site, the latter terms shall control with respect to your purchase or use of the goods or services.

The following terms also govern and apply to your use of the Site, and they are incorporated herein by this reference: Privacy Policy.

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This Site may contain links to other independent third-party web sites ("Linked Sites"). These Linked Sites are provided solely as a convenience. Such Linked Sites are not under OWC 's control, and OWC is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of such Linked Sites, including any information or materials contained on Linked Sites.

At times, Site visitors may post reviews, suggestions, questions, comments, photos, and other content to the Site, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious or objectionable to third parties and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You agree not to use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to content origin when posting to the Site. OWC reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but cannot review all posted content.

If you do post content or submit material, you grant OWC a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant OWC the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify OWC for all claims resulting from content you supply. OWC takes no responsibility and assumes no liability whatsoever for any content posted by you or any third party.

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OWC Reviews offer our customers the opportunity to share your experiences with our products and services. In addition, if you wish to share feedback with us about product selection, pricing, ordering, delivery or other customer service issues, please do not submit this feedback through a product review. Instead, contact us directly.

When writing your review, please consider the following guidelines:

• Focus on the product and your individual experience using it
• Provide details about why you liked or disliked a product
• There is a 1,000 word maximum on reviews. The recommended length is 75 to 300 words.

All reviews submitted are screened before they are posted to the website. OWC reserves the right to deny public posting rights to any review, specifically if it contains any of the following types of content or violates other guidelines, including but not limited to:

• Obscenities, discriminatory language, or other language not suitable for a public forum;
• Advertisements, “spam” content, or references to other products, offers, or websites;
• Email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, physical addresses or other forms of contact information;
• Critical or spiteful comments on other reviews posted on the page or their authors.

Please note that all submitted reviews are subject to the additional terms set forth below. By submitting your review you agree to the following terms & conditions:

These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Review service offered by OWC (the "CRR Service"). To the extent of any conflict between OWC's Privacy Policy and these Terms of Use, these Terms of Use shall control with respect to the CRR Service.

By submitting any content to OWC, you represent and warrant that:

• You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights thereto;
• All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
• All content that you post is accurate;
• You are at least 13 years old;
• Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.

You further agree and warrant that you shall not submit any content:

• That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
• That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
• That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control,
• Consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
• That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
• For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any third party;
• That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
• That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.

You agree to indemnify and hold New Concepts Development Corporation, its subsidiaries, Other World Computing, Inc. (collectively “OWC"), along with its officers, directors, agents, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc., harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

For any content that you submit, you grant OWC a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you.

All content that you submit may be used at OWC's sole discretion. OWC reserves the right to change, condense or delete any content on OWC's website that OWC deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use. OWC does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through OWC to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, OWC reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission for any reason. You acknowledge that you, not OWC, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of OWC, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers and their respective directors, officers and employees.

By submitting your email address in connection with your rating and review, you agree that OWC and its third party service providers may use your email address to contact you about the status of your review and other administrative purposes.

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Any offer for any feature, product or service on the Site is void where prohibited. If you choose to access the Site from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk and you are solely responsible for complying with applicable local laws. OWC reserves the right to limit, in its sole discretion, the provision and quantity of any Site feature, product or service to any person or geographic location.

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OWC appreciates the value of information and respects your privacy. However, OWC may disclose any information we have about you (including your identity or your communications with OWC through the Site) if we determine that such disclosure is necessary in connection with any investigation or complaint regarding your use of the Site, or to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with OWC's rights or property, or the rights or property of users of the Site. OWC reserves the right at all times to disclose any information that OWC deems necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. OWC also may disclose your information when OWC determines that applicable law requires or permits such disclosure, including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection purposes, or if OWC determines disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or personal safety of OWC, its employees, users or visitors to the Site, and the public. For more information, please see OWC's Privacy Policy.

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Except where prohibited by Law, in no event will OWC be liable to you for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, special, incidental, or punitive damages, including lost profits or loss of programs or other data, even if OWC has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Your sole remedy against OWC for dissatisfaction with the site or any content is to stop using the site or any such content.

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You agree to indemnify and hold OWC, its officers, directors, shareholders, predecessors, successors in interest, employees, agents, subsidiaries and affiliates, harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees), made against OWC by any third party due to or arising out of or in connection with your use of the Site.

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OWC does not warrant this site or any content, videos, or service of the site will be error-free or uninterrupted, or that any defects will be corrected, or that your use of the site will provide specific results. The site and its content and videos are delivered on an "As-Is" and "As-Available" basis. OWC does not guarantee that any files or other data you download from the site will be free from viruses or other destructive features. OWC disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including any warranties of accuracy, non-infringement, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. OWC disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site and/or any OWC services. You assume total responsibility for your use of the site, third party content posted on the site, site content, videos, and reliance on linked sites.

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